Azure Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 23 11
Rank change year-on-year +9 -12 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 144 59 62
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 12.54% 9.52% 13.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.96% 32.24% 37.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 46 46
10th Percentile £400 £306 £325
25th Percentile £450 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £449 £507
Median % change year-on-year +15.72% -11.54% -7.82%
75th Percentile £655 £516 £615
90th Percentile £688 £569 £645
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 424 183 167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 36.93% 29.52% 35.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 140 109
10th Percentile £357 £297 £223
25th Percentile £450 £357 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £470 £507
Median % change year-on-year +10.07% -7.40% -13.70%
75th Percentile £594 £545 £590
90th Percentile £688 £639 £645
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.50
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.26%
75th Percentile - - £22.00
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £35.00 £62.40 £21.00
% change year-on-year -43.91% +197.14% -1.20%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Azure job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 7 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield +9 139 £519 +15.72% 39
Doncaster -7 1 - - 6
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 14 (9.72%) Confluence
2 10 (6.94%) Apache Spark
3 7 (4.86%) SharePoint
4 5 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (2.08%) Apache
5 3 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (2.08%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.69%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 67 (46.53%) AWS
2 62 (43.06%) GCP
3 26 (18.06%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (17.36%) GitHub
5 18 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (10.42%) Power Platform
7 14 (9.72%) Entra ID
8 9 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (5.56%) OpenShift
10 7 (4.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (3.47%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (3.47%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (3.47%) PowerApps
12 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (2.78%) Serverless
13 3 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 3 (2.08%) OneDrive
13 3 (2.08%) Power Automate
13 3 (2.08%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.25%) Network Security
2 8 (5.56%) Firewall
3 6 (4.17%) SAN
4 3 (2.08%) DNS
4 3 (2.08%) Kerberos
4 3 (2.08%) NAS
5 2 (1.39%) LAN
5 2 (1.39%) Multicast
5 2 (1.39%) VSAN
5 2 (1.39%) WAN
6 1 (0.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.03%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.64%) Big Data
2 11 (7.64%) Power BI
3 6 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (4.17%) Data Lake
3 6 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.47%) Neo4j
5 4 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.78%) Delta Lake
5 4 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.78%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.08%) Spark SQL
6 3 (2.08%) Trino
7 2 (1.39%) Metadata
7 2 (1.39%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.39%) Redis
8 1 (0.69%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.69%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.69%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 30 (20.83%) Jenkins
2 21 (14.58%) JIRA
3 12 (8.33%) Git
4 7 (4.86%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (4.17%) GitLab
6 4 (2.78%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.08%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (2.08%) Fiddler
8 2 (1.39%) Gatling
8 2 (1.39%) JMeter
8 2 (1.39%) MSBuild
8 2 (1.39%) Postman
8 2 (1.39%) Selenium
8 2 (1.39%) Terragrunt
8 2 (1.39%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.69%) Gradle
9 1 (0.69%) JUnit
9 1 (0.69%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.69%) Maven
9 1 (0.69%) NeoLoad
General
1 52 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 49 (34.03%) Finance
3 21 (14.58%) Banking
4 14 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.17%) Financial Institution
5 6 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (4.17%) Law
6 5 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.78%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.39%) Billing
8 2 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.39%) Legal
9 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (20.14%) Lead
2 27 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (15.28%) Architect
4 11 (7.64%) Developer
5 8 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
6 7 (4.86%) Consultant
6 7 (4.86%) Data Engineer
6 7 (4.86%) Lead DevOps
6 7 (4.86%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 7 (4.86%) Security Engineer
6 7 (4.86%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (4.17%) Analyst
7 6 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (4.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 6 (4.17%) Cloud Solutions Architect
7 6 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 6 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (4.17%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.47%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 5 (3.47%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (12.50%) REST
2 10 (6.94%) .NET
3 8 (5.56%) ASP.NET
3 8 (5.56%) Kafka
3 8 (5.56%) OAuth
3 8 (5.56%) SailPoint
4 7 (4.86%) AngularJS
4 7 (4.86%) OpenID
5 6 (4.17%) .NET Core
5 6 (4.17%) JSON
5 6 (4.17%) PySpark
5 6 (4.17%) SAML
5 6 (4.17%) Web Services
6 5 (3.47%) LDAP
6 5 (3.47%) React
7 4 (2.78%) FIDO
7 4 (2.78%) OAuth2
8 3 (2.08%) SLSA
8 3 (2.08%) SOAP
8 3 (2.08%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.42%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (9.72%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 8 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (5.56%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.86%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (3.47%) AI Agents
7 5 (3.47%) Public Cloud
7 5 (3.47%) Replication
7 5 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.78%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (2.08%) Blog
9 3 (2.08%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (2.08%) Cyber Security Posture
9 3 (2.08%) EMC VMAX
9 3 (2.08%) EMC VNX
9 3 (2.08%) FlexPod
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.42%) Linux
2 11 (7.64%) Windows
3 10 (6.94%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.17%) Data ONTAP
5 5 (3.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.78%) CoreOS
6 4 (2.78%) VMS
7 3 (2.08%) AIX
8 2 (1.39%) Android
8 2 (1.39%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (47.92%) DevOps
2 67 (46.53%) CI/CD
3 40 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
4 31 (21.53%) Observability
5 30 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
6 27 (18.75%) DevSecOps
7 25 (17.36%) AI
8 24 (16.67%) Analytics
9 23 (15.97%) Platform Engineering
9 23 (15.97%) Stakeholder Management
10 22 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (14.58%) Agile
11 21 (14.58%) Containerisation
12 20 (13.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 18 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (12.50%) Data Protection
13 18 (12.50%) Microservices
13 18 (12.50%) Test Automation
14 17 (11.81%) Cloud Security
14 17 (11.81%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 46 (31.94%) Python
2 29 (20.14%) SQL
3 26 (18.06%) Java
4 14 (9.72%) PowerShell
5 10 (6.94%) Bash
6 9 (6.25%) C#
7 8 (5.56%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.86%) Groovy
9 6 (4.17%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.78%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.08%) Go
12 2 (1.39%) Bicep
12 2 (1.39%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.69%) Cypher
13 1 (0.69%) Scala
13 1 (0.69%) X++
Qualifications
1 10 (6.94%) Degree
2 9 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 6 (4.17%) CISSP
4 5 (3.47%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (2.78%) CCSP
5 4 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.78%) CISM
6 3 (2.08%) CCSK
6 3 (2.08%) NCDA
6 3 (2.08%) NCIE
6 3 (2.08%) OCP
6 3 (2.08%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (2.08%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.69%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (0.69%) RHCA
7 1 (0.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.94%) QA
2 6 (4.17%) NIST
3 5 (3.47%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.39%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.39%) GDPR
4 2 (1.39%) GRC
4 2 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.69%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.69%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (0.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (20.83%) Docker
2 21 (14.58%) Active Directory
3 9 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (4.17%) Hyper-V
5 6 (4.17%) vSphere
6 5 (3.47%) NFS
7 3 (2.08%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (2.08%) SRDF
7 3 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.69%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.69%) Ceph
8 1 (0.69%) KVM
8 1 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 51 (35.42%) Kubernetes
2 37 (25.69%) Terraform
3 22 (15.28%) Ansible
4 12 (8.33%) Grafana
4 12 (8.33%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.17%) SnapMirror
6 5 (3.47%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (2.78%) Kustomize
7 4 (2.78%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 3 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (2.08%) Argo
8 3 (2.08%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (1.39%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (1.39%) NetBackup
9 2 (1.39%) SnapVault
9 2 (1.39%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.69%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.69%) Istio
10 1 (0.69%) QRadar
10 1 (0.69%) WMI
Vendors
1 44 (30.56%) Microsoft
2 17 (11.81%) Databricks
3 10 (6.94%) Google
4 8 (5.56%) CyberArk
4 8 (5.56%) Red Hat
4 8 (5.56%) VMware
5 6 (4.17%) Cisco
5 6 (4.17%) NetApp
5 6 (4.17%) Splunk
6 5 (3.47%) Centrify
7 4 (2.78%) Okta
7 4 (2.78%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.78%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.78%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.78%) Veeam
8 3 (2.08%) 3PAR
8 3 (2.08%) Aruba
8 3 (2.08%) Brocade
8 3 (2.08%) Dell
8 3 (2.08%) IBM